Epift. 143. he largely and earnestly advises his friend HERCULANIUS to conceal his philofophical tenets, which he profeffes to do himself; and recommends to him for a directory, the Letter of LySIS the Pythagorean to his condifciple HIPPARCHUS, which we have cited above, and which he defires him frequently to perufe. From this particular account of SYNESIUS (of whom more elfwhere) no less than from the whole tenor of this Differtation, it may be easily conceiv'd; how hard it is to come at TRUTH your felf, and how dangerous a thing to publish it to others.

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